Manual:Extension/BlueSpiceRating

What is Rating?

Rating enables The rating extension allows users to rate articles pages with up to five stars. The

A user can change his assessment their rating at any time , by choosing less or more stars. The average evaluation, as well as the number of assessments, are displayed. The user can change his assessments at any time, because can rate as often as wants. Only the first assessment counts. The others ratings is shown next to the page title:

Only one rating per user is counted. New votes only change the average evaluation, but not the number of assessmentsratings.

Where to find Rating ?a page

The feature is placed right at the article. There are two possibilities where it can be placed: next to the article title.

Summary of Evaluations

A user simply selects the amount of stars for a rating. The number of stars are then hightlighted in yellow. A mouse-click confirms the rating:

List of

There is a The special page Special:Ratings where you can find an overview of all evaluations, which have been made in your wiki. Every column of this listing can be sorted ascending or descending.

Further Information

lists all pages that have been rated.

Disabling rating on a page

You can also exclude pages from the rating system. The tool won´t be shown on this pages. You can do this with a so-called "Behaviour Switch". The switch must be inserted in the article, to avoid the display of the rating tool. Just insert in the code of the wiki article.

Admin information

Disabling rating in a namespace

To define at which position the star rating should be shown, go to the admin preferences. You can find them in the main navigation tab "Admin" at the menue item "Preferences". Fold out the menues "BlueSpice" and BlueSpice - MediaWiki settings" there. You can find the menue for ratings there.

You can choose between Article title and Status bar, to define whether to display the star symbols next to the title or in the StatusBar. In addition to this, you can configure in which namespaces the rating system should be activated. Just choose the namespaces in the drop down menue. For choosing more than one, hold the ctrl button and click on the namespaces you need.

Administrators can turn on the rating feature for individual namespaces. To enable or disable ratings, go to Global actions > Namespace manager and edit the namespaces:

See also

Our reference page.